We are proud to announce EXALEAD CloudView V6R2013x. In this release we focused heavily on Mashup Builder: revamping the UI, adding new widgets, and extending MEL functionality. At the same time, we also significantly improved search performance.

In V6R2013x, we completely redesigned Mashup Builder to improve the user experience. Based on your feedback, we added exciting new features to speed up productivity, such as keyboard shortcuts and live widget and page previews right in Mashup Builder.

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For more info: see the Mashup Builder User Guide.

This release also updates and extends widgets, with a focus on interacting with facets. You now can display facets from your choice of sliders, drop-down lists or filtered and paginated views. We also grew the analytics widget library so it now allows you to create complex tables, display multiple metrics and create Flash-free maps for iPad and iPhone compatibility. All in all, Mashup Builder now includes over 100 widgets out-of-the-box!

MEL (Mashup Expression Language) allows you to manipulate search results from within widgets. Up until now it was mostly limited to formatting hit meta. V6R2013x brings MEL to a whole new level, transforming it into a full-fledged language (with if-elseif, iterators...) capable of manipulating any object in the Mashup API: hits, facets, categories, aggregations...you name it. 
It also simplifies some expressions since it's not necessary to repeat ${***} within an already-opened MEL expression (${***). 
For example, the expression that was previously written ${if ${search.q == ${search.y}}?ok:notok} is now written ${search.q == search.y?ok:notok}

We also extended standard function libraries to enhance date, math, string and URL manipulation. You can now easily create custom hit or facet displays with just a few lines of MEL in an HTML widget.

For more info: see the Mashup Builder User Guide.

To better handle the display of a large number of dates in analytic widgets, CloudView V6R2013x introduces Dynamic date facets. This facet type enables the date display to adapt according to the date range and the max number of categories allowed for this facet. With a dynamic date facet, when the user selects a 1-year period the widget could display months (or year, if the max category limit was reached), but if the user instead selects a 2-week period, the widget then displays individual days. Dynamic date facets are not meant to be displayed with Timeline widgets (which have their own input date format) and instead can be used with any other kind of Mashup chart representations.

For more info: see the CloudView Technical Reference Guide.

To complement the scheduled alerting introduced in V6R2013, real time alerting allows matching new documents against a set of saved queries at indexing time. With this new feature, it is now possible to trigger alerts with a very low latency, as soon as the document goes through the indexing chain. Real-time alert output (matching documents) can be delivered to custom webservices, for integration in customer workflows.

For more info: see the Business Console User Guide.

Sometimes a product configuration is valid but does not return what the user expects. Think for instance of features that need several steps to be completely enabled, like suggest dictionaries that you must build before they return results. In V6R2013x we introduce a new Diagnostics section in the Administration Console. The Diagnostics tool scans your configuration to flag potential traps, explains how to fix the issue, and provides a link so you can jump straight to the section of the Administration Console where you can fix the issue. This tool is targeted for both new and advanced users of CloudView and will speed up both the configuration and the learning curve while guiding users through common problems.

For more info: See the CloudView Administration Guide. Better yet, just play with the product - it's pretty intuitive!

The new license server allows multiple CloudView instances to share a common document token pool. The license server requires a specific type of licence. The license server can be used to centralize the document count of your many applications inside the company or even to count license usage for CloudView instances installed on the cloud.

For more info: See the CloudView Installation and Deployment Guide.

It has become a tradition for EXALEAD to extend our connector portfolio with each new major release of CloudView. For V6R2013x, we're introducing a new Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) connector.

We've also updated our ENOVIA connector so it is enabled for our new tool to manage incremental updates of flattened data, known as Structured Data Consolidation (SDC).